the island illusion

Rating: 1/10 (1 August 2007)

i am a nauseatingly lazy person and very little can tempt me to move my muscles. brain or otherwise. but this time i was forced into writing this review to crush the enthusiasm of people who recommended this movie and the ones who are so sincerely defending it.
the movie is full of worms and deals with too many wild cards in a row. of course,Scarlett Johanson lights up the screen most of the times except for the acting part. but there isn't much of an acting required to be a clone so you wouldn't mind the deadpan expressions. Ewan McGregor disappoints you mainly because you expect a much better choice of film from him.
everyone in this Utopian world looks like he belongs to a fancy fitness crazy gym or perhaps the set of Logan's run. the movie begins with a sophisticated void that gradually changes into sensational tooting, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, trilling... and then bang! the meaning subsides... and an indifferent void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.
and the script! its not just clichéd... some of the words are so horribly common that you cannot escape them at any cost. the intense cry of six-echo, "my name... is Lincoln" will thrust you back to matrix's "my name... is Neo" and you will find your eyes going towards the matrix DVD longingly. but you won't quit the movie yet. it is a science fiction that royally wastes McGregor's talents, you cant miss it. 'the island' is matrix without its intellect, Gattaca without its heart gripping story, Logan's run without its expansion and Aeon flux without its innovative execution. if you enjoy watching protracted chase sequences, unnecessary exaggeration, things made mighty without a reason and finally a less than original reason to support the movie, then 'the island' is my definite recommendation. otherwise, do yourself a favor and switch to American idol.